Favorite films
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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I saw this at my local AMC a month prior to logging it, so the details aren't 100% fresh.
It's a great big silly warm-hearted gay caper movie and I'll listen through all the nitpicks but at the end of the day I loved it. I'm sure I'll fire this one up again on streaming at some point and enjoy it again with some takeout.
The single most important thing is that the leads convince you that they're fundamentally incomplete…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I saw this in IMAX at my local AMC.
LISAN AL-GHAIIIIIIIIIIB!
I'm right in the overlapping area of the Venn diagram for people likely to enjoy this movie. I love the source material, I defer to its legendary status as "unfilmable" so I am willing to be pretty generous, I love the previous work of so many members of the cast and I have watched the first one four times through so far. (The pandemic and WFH helped with that…
Watched in 2023 on Criterion streaming as part of movie club. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, even given the long runtime, and it’ll be on my list of courtroom dramas to recommend for anyone.
The case at the center of the movie is handled IMHO as only someone with training in and love for the law could. That’s both the whodunnit of it all, and the trial machinations themselves. I especially enjoyed how Stewart uses every trick — legal and…